Screen Resolution

[Georgia in MS]

I have an HP zd8230 (XP) with a screen resolution of 1440 x 900. Everything on this laptop is small. The icons are small, the Word documents are small, FF is small. I love everything being small. I can see much more on this screen.

I just bought a Dell Vostro 3700 (XP) with a screen resolution of 1440 x 900. Everything on this laptop is big. The icons are big. Word documents can be reduced to 75% to see the same area of info that I see at 100% on the HP.

I thought the screen resolution would determine the size of what is displayed on the screen. It would seem to me since the Dell has a higher resolution, the display would be small like the HP.

What determines a small display?

 

[Pyroflea]

If you're running Vista or W7, you can select the desktop icons, you can hold CTRL + Scroll Wheel to adjust icon size. Try that out.

http://www.entity.cc/change-icon-size.php

That explains how to on XP.

Good luck,


- Jesse

 

[Georgia in MS]

It's not just the icons. Everything is displayed larger on the Dell. The desktop, Word/Excel documents, browsers. Everything is larger.

What spec do I need to verify on a computer to have everything displayed small? Is it something in the DPI setting?

 

[DoganMods]

yeah, thats right.